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Montreal in Microcosm: Seventy Years in the life of the Montreal West Operatic Society

Seventy years is a long survival time for a community theatre troupe, and especially so in English-speaking Quebec. At seventy, the Montreal West Operatic Society is one of the longest-surviving in Canada, and the hands-down oldest troupe specializing, as many of them do, in the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.

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Reflections: Arts & Culture

Masking Multiculturalism: Montreal West and Canada 150

Author: 
Rebecca Friend*

--June 23, 2017.

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Mark your Calendars, Canada: The Evolution of our National Holiday

Author: 
Rebecca Friend*

--June 1, 2017.

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Growing up in Black Montreal

Author: 
Dorothy W. Williams

I don’t remember the knives but the smells are still sharp, and part of the memories. Growing up Black in Little Burgundy: did I grow up Black, or did I grow up and become Black? Where did it all begin? My experiences of being Black-are entwined with my sense of belonging, of community.

It was a multi-ethnic community, with Chinese families sharing my street with French families. And right around my corner was a whole new world: Italian neighbours who lived in their own enclave with smells of wine, spices and other herbs I still don’t have words for.

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The PSC Community Theatre

Author: 
Fergus Keyes

Around 2005, Peggie Hopkins, a real estate agent in Point St. Charles, was offered an opportunity to act in a play at Westmount’s community theatre. She had no previous acting experience, but thought that the chance to act might be a new and interesting adventure.

Before long, she was infected with the “theatre bug” and was thinking about starting a local English-language community theatre in Point St. Charles. Of course, the big question was, “how do you start a community theatre?”

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